File creation time and date

[Matthew Galgoci]

> Tough luck, the ctime you are refering to in stat refers to the
> attribute change time not creation time.  the basic i-node structure
> in any unix/linux variant doesn't have a field for  creation time.
> Since the file system abstraction layer VFS is fundamental to uniform
> access to any file system, inode structure remains same from file
> system to file system.  Of course, you can engineer a file system
> differently but for proper VFS functionality you still need to mess
> with libc and etc....
>
> Moral, there is no way to find this information
>

No but you can have a very good educated guess.

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Matthew Galgoci
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